buildings. How to build a house to save steps, to cause it to 

 be sanitary and cheerful, to insure good construction, to make 

 it comfortable and durable, are questions of careful planning; 

 and the more we build by merely copying other buildings or 

 depending on the wit of the carpenter, the longer will we con- 

 tinue to be held by tradition. The silent and continuing 

 influence of the building in which it lives, has a powerful effect 

 on the child. The proper building of barns, dairies, stables, 

 creameries, poultry houses and all the other constructions of the 

 farm, must now receive expert attention. The experts can- 

 not be practicing architects, because the fees in farm building 

 are insufficient; the regular architects do not study these 

 questions. The experts must come from the colleges of 

 agriculture or other public institutions. Within a generation 

 practically all the farm buildings in New York should be 

 rebuilt. Who is going to direct the work? 



The farms of this College of Agriculture should have a num- 

 ber of model farm houses of different cost, with the grounds 

 properly laid out and planted. 



The landscape. 



Akin to all this is the development of the landscape features 

 of the open country, — the proper subdivision and lay-out of 

 farms, the placing of buildings for best effect, the plan and 

 planting of all yards and roadsides and school grounds and 

 church grounds, the preservation and improvement of scenery. 

 All this is necessary to make the country as attractive and as 

 satisfying as the city. It is also an economic question. 

 Plans are already underway in a few of the states for the 



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